Only 19% of Americans today say they can trust the government in Washington to do what is right “just about always” (3%) or “most of the time” (16%). Fewer than three-in-ten Americans have expressed trust in the federal government in every major national poll conducted since July 2007 – the longest period of low trust in government in more than 50 years.
http://www.people-press.org/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-government-1958-2015/
interestingly it went way up after 9/11 I would have expected the opposite.
That result may have had to do with the alphabet soup mob massaging the figures. Ed Snowden spoke about GCHQ here in the UK changing the percentages on polls in 2013.
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yeah, public opinion manipulated by NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, they triggered a surge of patriotism.
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